In this Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012 photo, an Indian Hindu devotee, reflected on water, offers an oil lamp as he performs evening rituals in the River Ganges in Allahabad, India. Allahabad, on the confluence of the rivers Ganges and Yamuna, is one of Hinduism's important centers. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

A staff member of the German parliament Bundestag walks through a tunnel between parliament buildings in Berlin, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. During the first week after the summer break the German parliament will face the budget debate and on Wednesday a decision of Germany's Federal Constitutional Court about the European Stability Mechanism. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

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A Thai worker stands outside a new hamburger shop during its renovation in Bangkok Monday, Sept. 10, 2012.(AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

A woman is seen through the window of a funicular in Vladivostok, Russia, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)

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Palestinian youths burn tires during a protest against the high cost of living at the Jilazoun refugee camp in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The Palestinian Authority, which governs Palestinians in the West Bank, is suffering a budgetary shortfall because the U.S. and Arab countries that sustain it haven't paid all the aid money that they have promised. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

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Palestinian police use shields to protect themselves from stones thrown by Palestinian demonstrators during a protest near the municipality building in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. Palestinian demonstrators fed up with high prices and unpaid salaries shuttered shops, halted traffic with burning tires and closed schools throughout the West Bank on Monday in the largest show of popular discontent with the governing Palestinian Authority in its 18-year history. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

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Miners march to Lonmin Platinum Mine near Rustenburg, South Africa, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, in an attempt to stop operations. Union rivalry is at the root of violent illegal strikes that have been troubling the mining industry that is the engine driving Africa's largest economy. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

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In this Saturday, Sept 8, 2012 photo, a Free Syrian Army soldier walks through a destroyed school in the Izaa district of Aleppo, Syria. Syrian activists say President Bashar Assad's regime pounded Aleppo with warplanes and artillery shelling Saturday as ground forces seeking to regain momentum in the country's largest city advanced on three neighborhoods. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)

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A policewoman with her dog guard the basement as UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (not pictured) attends the 85th anniversary of the donaition by John D. Rockfeller to endow the League of Nations Library on September 10, 2012 at the United Nations offices in Geneva. AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/GettyImages

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A Bangladeshi man works in a tannery in Dhaka on September 10, 2012. Bangladesh is one of the poorest nations on the planet with 40 percent of its 144 million people living on less than 1 dollar a day. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMANMUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/GettyImages

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An Indian artist works on an idol of the Hindu god Biswakarma at the artisan village, known locally as Kumartoli, in Siliguri on September 10,2012. Biswakarma is the Hindu god of architecture and machinery, and will be worshipped across the country on September 17. AFP PHOTO/Diptendu DUTTADIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP/GettyImages

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This picture taken on September 9,2012 shows an elderly man riding on a toy horse in Beijing. China says its trade surplus widened to 26.7 billion USD in August as exports remained weak and imports registered a surprise decline in a further blow to the country's slowing economy. AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAOWANG ZHAO/AFP/GettyImages

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Residents take photos of a flooded area after dikes on the Salmon River gave way in Truro, Nova Scotia on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. The area is under a rainfall warning as Tropical Storm Leslie churns toward Atlantic Canada. Leslie is expected to make landfall in Newfoundland bringing heavy rain and high winds. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Andrew Vaughan)

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A mother walks with her baby in the eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

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Palestinian demonstrators throw shoes towards a banner with a picture of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad during a protest against the high cost of living in the West Bank city of Hebron, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. Elsewhere in the West Bank, demonstrators halted traffic with burning tires, schools were closed and store owners shuttered their shops. It was the most serious unrest since the demonstrations erupted last week. The banner reads in Arabic "leave, leave, Fayyad." (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

An FSA soldier walks past the stairs of a bombed building in the Saif Al Duli district in Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. Syria's most prominent defector said in an interview that aired Monday that he opposes any foreign military intervention in the country's civil war and that he is confident the opposition can topple President Bashar Assad's regime. But Manaf Tlass, a Syrian general who was the first member of Assad's inner circle to join the opposition, said the rebels need weapons. (AP Photo/ Manu Brabo)

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A man paddles on the Main river as the sun sets in Frankfurt, Germany, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

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Balloons painted by a woman who introduced herself as Russian artist Margo Trushina, unseen, are displayed during an art performance at a former women's prison to support the Russian punk band 'Pussy Riot' in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

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A worker hangs a giant poster of Pope Benedict XVI on the airport highway, in Beirut, Lebanon, Monday, Sept. 10, 2012. Pope Benedict XVI will begin a three-day visit to Lebanon on Friday. During his visit, the Pope said he would meet with Lebanese authorities as well as Christians from Lebanon and other nearby countries. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

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A fire truck is driven through a vineyard while battling a wildfire in Peachland, British Columbia, on Monday Sept. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darryl Dyck)

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Grass fire spreads across the Blood Reserve near Highway 509 west of Lethbridge, Alberta on Monday Sept. 10, 2012. A rapidly moving grass fire in southern Alberta has prompted officials to order everyone in a town southeast of Calgary to evacuate. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jaime Vedres)

Yanomami natives rest at the Irotatheri community, Amazonas state, southern Venezuela, 19 km away from the border with Brazil, on September 7, 2012. The Venezuelan government on Friday agreed to lead a delegation of national and international media to Irotatheri after a slaughter of 80 Yanomami natives was reported. Venezuelan militarymen detected evidence of illegal mining in the south of the country, where Yanomami natives would have presumably been massacred by Brazilian illegal gold prospectors. AFP PHOTO/Leo RAMIREZLEO RAMIREZ/AFP/GettyImages

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A fighter with the Free Syria Army (FSA) holds his weapon during heavy clashes with government forces in Izza neighbourhood of the embattled northern city of Aleppo on September 9, 2012. AFP PHOTO/ZAC BAILLIEZAC BAILLIE/AFP/GettyImages

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Nicaraguan firefighters held passengers during an air accident drill held at Managua's international airport, on September 10, 2012. AFP PHOTO/Hector RETAMALHECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/GettyImages

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A Bangladeshi boat man looks on as he attempts to make his way through water hyacinth on the Buriganga river in Dhaka on September 10, 2012. Water hyacinth has hampered the movement of boats on the river. AFP PHOTO/Munir uz ZAMANMUNIR UZ ZAMAN/AFP/GettyImages

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A laser show illuminates the power plant Boxberg, eastern Germany during the TransNATURALE event on September 08, 2012. The event celebrates the recultivation of this industrialized area. AFP PHOTO / MARTIN FOERSTER GERMANY OUTMartin Forster/AFP/GettyImages

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